THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF DOGS DURING THIS LOCKDOWN By. Joseph Emeka Onyema-onwe.

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF DOGS DURING THIS LOCKDOWN.
Dogs are social, loyal and family companions. They date back to the origin of man. Even during the Roman Empire era, the Roman Drover dogs (an ancestor to Rottweiler) were very loyal to the Roman soldiers. They were used in guarding and conveying carts of supplies from one city to the other. They were also used as ambulances.
Dogs are very intelligent, and need enough obedience training and socialization to conform to the specific desired traits of a dog lover.
Dogs are useful during this lockdown for security and economic gains. As the nation Nigeria is almost down to security crisis as a result of restrictions of movement subsequently affecting the livelihood of many, necessitating some to enter into crime, we have to beef up our security. Dogs comes into play. The good thing about dogs is that it alerts you at least (whether it is English or local Dog) to take cover or inform proper authorities or neighbours to come to your rescue. Apart from alerting, some dogs especially the short breeds like the bull dogs and pitbulls might even go out of the way, to attack and rip apart any stranger because they have guarding instincts and are very protective of it's owners and territory.
As per the economic reasons to own a dog during this lockdown, when one has like say a female South African Boerboel, a Caucasian Shepherd or a German Shepherd dog, let's say like a 6-month old which when bought at that age can still be trained. In 7 to 8 months time, (i.e. a Year plus), one can start breeding the dog to get puppies. These puppies can be marketed through reputable dog breeders who have a ready market for it.
Dogs are wonderful, and before I drop my pen, I would suggest that each of us get a pet dog like a Lhasa or a Chihuahua for our children (popularly called parlour dogs) . Dogs can even reduce stress, and funnily enough are even more loyal than most human beings on Earth.
SOME TYPES OF DOGS.
1. Pitbull (American Origin).
2. Boerboel (South Africa)
3. Caucasian Shepherd (Georgia and Russian)
4. Alaskan Malamute ( American)
5. Siberian Husky.
6. Neapolitan Mastff ( Italian Origin).
7. Cane Corso (Italian Origin)
8. Rhodesian Ridgeback ( Central Africa).
9. Dogo Argentino (Argentina).
10. Fila Brasileiro (Brasilian Mastiff).
11. German Shepherd (Germany)
12. British Bulldog (Great Britain).
13. American bulldog (United States)
14. Alabai (Central Asian Dog)
15. Rottweiler - (Germany).
16. Grey Hound (Italian Hound)
17. Dobermann Pinscher
18. Kangal (Turkey - the most powerful dog in the world in terms of bite force with a 741 per square inch (PSI) of bite force.
19. St. Bernard (Italian Origin)-  A Shepherd type of dog.
20. The Nigerian Local breeds (Nigeria)
Et cetera .
In my own submission, if we obtain a Nigerian local breed, if given careful Obedience training and socialisation, they are even more formidable than most English or Foreign breeds. Our Local breeds in Nigeria from my own personal experience have more immunity than foreign breeds. Irresponsible ownership, lack of attention and poor nutrition are the major reasons our local breeds misbehave.
Buy a dog during this lockdown and your children will love it, possibly get a pet dog (Lhasa or Chihuahua) for them, then get a guard dog like the Boerboel or German Shepherd for the purpose of alertness to be kept in your open yard or field.
Thanks and I hope I did a little tutoring on the importance of a dog.

Joseph Emeka Onyema-onwe. 
( A proud owner of a Raiser's edge Pitbull).
NOTA BENE:
Dr. Nneka Ekwe (DVM) of Amorji Nenwe, Enugu State, Nigeria, is a reputable Veterinary Doctor who can attend to the Health needs of your dog(s).

Adverse effects of the use of the face mask

Adverse effects of the use of the face mask.
Face masks are useful protection against infection. They limit the spread of infective agents from the infected person wearing the mask as well as the rate of transmission of the infective organisms to the uninfected person wearing the mask.
 The medical face masks are designed to serve these purposes perfectly. The N95 face masks can filter 95% of airborne particles unlike the ordinary medical face masks.
 The ability of the nonmedical face masks to protect depends on the size of the pores of the materials and the nature of the fabric of which the mask is made. However, they are cheaper and reusable for a longer period after washing. (Medical facemasks are not reusable except for N95 which can be reused after re-sterilization).

Some adverse effects of face masks are:
1. False security: Masks only reduce the risks of transmission of infection. They do not give absolute protection. There is real risk that a false sense of protection may make those wearing masks to ignore other more effective preventive measures such as physical distancing and hand hygiene thereby cancelling the gains of the face mask.

2. Face masks are generally uncomfortable to wear. There may be need for regular adjustment necessitating regular touching of one's face which is counterproductive as far as infection prevention is concerned.

3. There may be a sense of suffocation from prolonged use of the face mask. This arises from limited inhaled air and re-breathing of CO2-rich exhaled air. This may lead to progressive hypoxia and hypercapnia. If this is not addressed, it may lead to cerebral hypoxia, loss of consciousness and even death.

4. Especially for those using eye glasses, exhaled air in mask users may form a fog on the glasses and limit vision. Again this may be a reason for more frequent touching of the face with its implications for disease transmission.

5. Masks muffle speech with the risk of breaking the rule of physical distancing for effective communication.

6. Depending on the fabric of which the nonmedical mask is made, particles from the mask may be inhaled causing a form of pneumoconiosis with a long-term risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Having identified these risks, how do we curtail them?
 Face masks should be worn only when necessary e.g. outdoors and when one is in the company of others but not when one is alone in his house or when one is  sleeping in his house.
Despite face mask, one should not be complacent with the other measures of infection prevention.
presented  by 
Dr Leo.Chuwuali 

CYBER/ONLINE SECURITY. A SHORT MEMO; BY. CHUKA ONWE

This period where literarily all we do is online, we have to take safety precautions to make sure all transactions and activities are safe from the source to the destination. There are guys hovering around to sneak in and make changes to information sent thereby undermining the positivity of technology.

Our security online lies in our hands.
•Be mindful of the kind of websites you visit
•When you sign-in to any website and get a pop-up asking to save password, please it’s safer not to save passwords especially when on a public device or computer because someone that shares the device with you can access the saved passwords.
•Be aware of pop-ups when you open up a webpage, that prompts you to click(probably to win something)... This is not real, they are all scam. No sane person will just tell you to click and win especially in this our dry and difficult economy.
•Remember to sign-out your emails opened on a public device or computer immediately you are done to avoid unwanted visitors.
•Use strong passwords (letters mixed with numbers and symbols like *#+.. recommended with minimum of 8 characters) when signing-up to a website.
•Most people right now make conference calls via Zoom, Google meet, Skype and some other platforms. Please check the settings of the application you are using to confirm all firewalls and authentications are activated so you won’t have a ghost guest in your conference.
Please any suspicious emails or posts on any platform should be ignored..
Hackers are struggling to survive.. so please Remain safe and smart
I am 
Chuka Onwe, an IT personnel
(Network administrator and Security analyst).

ILU NENWE KETAA :Epeteke zegbo,ọ lahụwa l'éwa ya.By.Sai Nwaenya

"Epeteke zegbo, ọ lahụwa l'éwa ya"

EPETEKE ZEGBO... explained.

Epeteke is a kind of Nenwe onomatopoeia  that depicts plenty but tiny in nature; like ụmụ mperete.
In the proverb, it refers to tiny yam seedlings.
Epeteke éwaji - tiny and sickly yam seedlings
Mgbii éwa ji - sizeable and halthy yam seedlings (see attached pix.

So what the proverb is saying is that if one decides to cut tiny his yam seedlings, he may get very greeny yam leaves but after all, he will harvest tiny yams. Its Bible equivalent: if you sow sparingly, you reap sparingly while the computer people say garbage in, garbage out.  


Lesson: Give adequate measure of inputs to expect reasonable output.
BY:Sai Nwaenya (Prof)
FRIDAY ORIE (08th May 2020)

FURTHER DISCUSSIONS:

Proverbs are very narrow ways of saying wide variety of things. Their usage depends on what prompt(s) them.
I used it as a farmer here. If as a road safety officer, you are to work under a contractor boss from Europe who disturbs you too much; you may console another officer who is equally disturbed by the European character not to worry, after all ọ kwa epeteke zegbo....
So the two explanations can work. The only major difference is that the second voice approached the explanation Etymologically.  Ie, trying to dig into the root of its coinage.

As a student, if you see one who reads so much but fails his exams, you can still use the proverb to address someone who wants to show a feeling that that student is the best in the class: you can say; ya gụwalụ ya, afterall, ọ kwa epeteke zegbo... It has a synonym: "ụkwa megbo ọ danga l'ukwu ye.

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BY:Sai Nwaenya (Prof)
FRIDAY ORIE (08th May 2020)

WHY SOME PEOPLE TALK GOOD OF THE DEAD by Chukwubike OC

WHY SOME PEOPLE TALK GOOD OF THE DEAD;

The human being (especially in some cultures as in Africa) is  very religious and believe in the existence of *SPIRITS*, therefore when a  person dies or passes over to another state or journey  most people  believe  he has joined the spirits and has  acquired all the powers attributed  to spirits  who are also believed with the Gods govern the living .

• This per se makes us afraid of attracting their wrath and fury  if  we ever say bad of them or  refer to any bad  they did while being with the living. This affects  our presentations and funeral orations to tend to positive things and moments of the dead.
• On another instant,  some people would just want to appear polite to the family of the dead therefore saying  all nice things they know, imagine and sometimes absolute (positive)lies about the dead person. Sometime these are   to curry favour.
• The third group just go with the trend. They repeat in other-words, ’copy and paste’ what others just said  and continue  with their food, drinks and other entertainments. when served. 

*Personal notes*

Some of us who believe that a person  while alive is made up of the body and spirit  may not be afraid  to speak about the dead  as we would have spoken when he was alive because he just dropped the body and only  the spirit we knew all the while  has just continued the course. In simple words ‘if I wasn’t afraid of  him when he was in two states why should I be afraid  of  him now he is in only one state?

People like this in some cases fall or incline  a bit towards  the second category also as not to aggravate the pains of the  mourners   by saying  ‘negativities’ of the dead person.

Written by 

Charles.O Chukwubike

Charlie.mbc@gmail.com

THE DIASPORA & HOME COMING... BY (O.A)

As a way of  introducing readers to how  to use this   blog I shall paste  some 'private discussions' going on in our  nenwe online whatsapp group. Names  are abbreviated   and  little  modifications  made  for privacy. The writer is  not liable  to  some mistakes .However if one  would like his  details  in full he  may ask the moderator. This  is  a trial ( PRIVATE discussion)  it is not a lecture. The  are impromptu presentations  and the language of presentation does not reflect the persons  qualifications and abilities
I am
Charles O Chukwubike 

Umunna-ulu alodu. Please, this piece of advice is for our brothers and sisters from Nenwe residing in US and parts of Europe. It concerns your/our children who are Nenwerians (umu-Nenwe) born and bred in these places. Based on my experience, having traveled to some US states and parts of Europe, and having seen some Igbo families, I felt this burden. It is not proper to have children in foreign land, some of whom are grown ups but have not known or visited  where they come from- Nenwe. 

Some of you have refused to bring your children home-Nenwe in order to know where they come from. For example, I was invited to the wine carrying -igba mee oha, of my relation's daughter in the USA. This is a girl who does not know me or any of her relations-umunna in Nenwe. She is also marrying a Yoruba boy she met there. Has her village and indeed Nenwe not lost that our daughter just because the parents could not bring her to know where she comes from. Like some other young people I have met in US and Europe, all they could tell you is that my parents said we are from Eastern part of Nigeria. Some who claimed to know the name of their community , could hardly pronounce it. I expressed my disappointment on some Igbo parents I met last October to November when I was in again in the USA for refusing to play these roles on their children. Most of them are regretting it especially those their children have grown, some wearing ear rings. Much as these children are also American citizens, where their citizenship makes more meaning is their Nigeria and Nenwe. 

Just one example of our son who seems to be towing a good path. He is from my village . He came and built a very good house, a duplex not far from the road . One Xmas, he brought all his family members home from US. They were so happy- and acknowledged that their village house was far better  than that the wooden bungalow they occupied in US. The children saw more friendly people, and the son played football regularly with his peers at St Peter's field. They ate foo- foo, (utara) and liked it instead of pizza, they used to think was the best food. They have continued to disturb their father every Xmas that they want to be in Nenwe. But for the international airport Enugu closed, they could have been in Nenwe for last Xmas. That is how to plant Nenwe spirit in our children . I know it is not easy, but it is doable, especially for those of you with younger families. 
For those whose children are grown, appeal and cry to them to identify with their root-Nenwe. The children of Nenwe where ever they are are our hope and will help develop Nenwe, even as many who are conscious and concerned of the development are ageing and going. This is my prayer. America and Europe will not totally possess and swallow Nenwe children, in Jesus Name. Amen.Umunna biko okwum aduhu mma, ulu tuvuo ye ma hafu m. Ekelemulu. To be continued.  
by...  (O A)

The Nenweonline University...The beginning.. The blog

Since the closure of yahoo groups and our migration to the WhatsAppp platform  the nenweonline has experienced the restrictvness of WhatsApp in presenting elaborate educative and learning materials for our members who in these years have craved and demanded more of such.

We have tried to accommodate this important aspect in our *mother chat group* but presentations seem to loose value and sometimes become boring to some people who may not be interested in some academic topics being discussed or who already have a wealth or knowledge in the matter being discussed. This is also very frustrating to our teaming specialists who are eager to teach,debate, expose, elaborate or answer some questions. 

Dr Fidel Nwabueze-Ogbo among others have been on the forefront in the creation of platform for this.Some  of my colleagues in the educational, didactic and learning specialization (with great experiences in the group) have been brainstorming on how to go about this especially giving the nature that it is a project geared towards a tomorrows online and physical  educational and research institute. Many of them believe its it possible: I believe it is possible though a difficult task which the collective efforts of dedicated people of goodwill will make come through.

The steps so far:

• I have created a blog like the one  I did for nenweonline called nenweonlineuni.blogspot.com (https://nenweonlineuni.blogspot.com/) which for now is visible to people on invitation until it is fully optimised. 
• People are invited to discuss any topic which would be followed by reactions and questions. 
• There is no copyright to any paper presented as of now but members are advised to make respectful use and references whenever they use or access our materials. 
• There shall be a special WhatsApp group though most topics may have a link sent to the general NOL groups for interested persons to click and get into Discussion. 
• Other social media platforms will be connected like a Facebook page and group.
• Maximum respect is expected from everyone accessing the blog. 
• Writers will have a Gmail account to access the blog. 

Other rules and regulations shall be jointly made by us as we march on. 

I am

Charles Okechukwu Chukwubike 

(Educational/Learning  Psychologist) 

1st May 2020

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